Everybody Plays: "Hype level: critical. We've sunk hundreds of hours into the Pokemon games over the years (literally - we spent a rather embarrassing 460 hours on Pokemon Pearl.), on their addictive combination of creature raising, battling and OCD-style "gotta catch 'em all" collecting - and now we're preparing to do it all over again this autumn, when the next generation of Pokemon games lands on the 3DS. "